Marijuana In The Workplace: Pot Quiz

The November election is just around the corner. Voter registration is in full swing (and early voting has already begun in a few states).

Written by Michael G. McClory

NLRB Workshop: The NLRB’s Joint Employment Standard and Temporary Employees – What Does it Mean for You?

Registration is now open for Bullard Law’s November 9, 2016 NLRB Workshop: The NLRB’s Joint Employment Standard and Temporary Employees – What Does it Mean for You?.   We invite you to participate in an interactive discussion about how recent National Labor Relations Board decisions on joint employment can affect unionized and non-unionized businesses who … Read more

Written by OBM Team

BOLI Revives “Surprise” Employer Inspection Program

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Ronald Reagan   In July 2016 BOLI started a new program that allows for surprise, warrantless searches of employers’ premises and books to find violations of wage and hour laws and to examine and record “methods … Read more

Written by Daniel R. Barnhart

Embracing Change

The word “change” is enough to make many people’s teeth chatter like a Halloween skeleton. And here’s a change big enough to send fear spiraling through the bones of even the most well-adjusted business owner: having the majority of the management team retire in succession over the period of two years.

Written by Sophia Bennett

Private support for arts dwindles

Public funding for the arts in the U.S. has always lagged behind first-world countries, with Germany outpacing this country’s arts funding by 40-to-1.

Written by Courtney Sherwood